You may spend a significant amount of time wondering about your tiredness, worrying about what you assume might be a sleep disorder like sleep apnea, trying to figure out what’s going on, but all the while realizing you don’t have any actual answers. What can you do, you ask yourself? If you were to ask… Read more »
Category: Sleep Study
Diagnosing Sleep Apnea
Sleep apnea is often overlooked because it occurs throughout the sleep cycle, meaning patients are typically unconscious when the condition affects them most. Even though you may experience symptoms throughout the day time, these are usually broad signs – like headaches or fatigue – that could also point to a number of other medical conditions…. Read more »
The Psychological Effects Of Sleep Loss
When you are lying in bed at night tossing and turning you may become anxious because you aren’t sleeping because you know how lousy and tired you feel the next day. Lack of sleep makes you groggy, fuzzy, and grumpy, but it also has some serious side effects, and can even be life threatening. So… Read more »
Sleep States: Part 2 – REM Sleep
Sleep studies began with the invention of the electroencephalograph (EEG). The EEG records electrical impulses from your brain, which is active even during sleep. During the 1950s, Eugene Aserinsky discovered REM sleep using the electroencephalograph. Since then studies have shown that sleep consists of stages. These stages can be determined according to the different brain… Read more »
Sleep Studies Part 3: Maintenance Of Wakefulness Test
Sleep studies aren’t only performed at night. The Maintenance of Wakefulness Test (MWT) is given during the day to determine what is causing a person’s daytime sleepiness. The MWT is also often required for certain safety-related jobs that require long hours of wakefulness. Read on to learn more from your Livonia, MI dentist, Dr. James Stewart,… Read more »
Sleep Studies Part 2: Multiple Sleep Latency Test
Perhaps you know somebody who has participated in a sleep study. Sleep studies have become very common due to the fact that an estimated 18 million Americans suffer from sleep apnea, and as many as 80 percent of cases go undiagnosed. Today your Livonia, MI dentist, Dr. James Stewart continues with part two of a three… Read more »
Sleep Studies Part 1: Polysomnograms
Perhaps you know somebody who has participated in a sleep study. Sleep studies have become very common due to the fact that an estimated 18 million Americans suffer from sleep apnea, and as many as 80 percent of cases go undiagnosed. Today your Livonia, MI dentist, Dr. James Stewart begins a three part series on sleep… Read more »
